Founded in the 1960s outside of Caserta, Italy by Francesco Seddio, Caffè Seddio makes wood-roasted coffees and makes a point of never roasting any faster than 20 minutes per batch, aiming for more of a bittersweet profile.

Unfortunately in 2011, as can often happen around Napoli, Italian anti-Mafia forces found financial entanglements with the Camorra and had to shut down a number of their Caserta-area cafés - many of which have since been reopened and "cleaned up".